Weird Foods of the World

                                                                                         

One of the best things about travelling is immersing yourself in the culture and acting like a local. This of course includes eating the local food which sometimes is easy, like having poutine in Quebec or pho in Vietnam.

But some local cuisines are much harder to swallow.

Asia in particular is renowned for weird and wonderful specialities. If you’ve been to Bangkok, you may have seen fired crickets, cockroaches and scorpions for sale at the street markets. I’m much too squeamish to try the likes of these but my partner munched down a cricket and quite enjoyed it.

Rats, cats and dog are popular in Vietnam and bats can be found at street markets in Indonesia. Snake is available throughout Asia with snake blood believed to have medicinal benefits.

Here in Australia, the Witchery Grub has been part of the Aboriginal diet for centuries and is said to taste like a cross between chicken and a prawn. (I’ll take their word for it).

Smalahove is a Norwegian dish made from a sheep’s head and considered a delicacy. The infamous Scottish dish haggis contains sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, boiled in the animal’s stomach. Black pudding, often found in English and Irish breakfasts, is a speciality sausage made from animal blood.

What weird foods have you tried when travelling? Let us know!

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